The WPA guide to New York City : the Federal Writers' Project guide to 1930s New York : a comprehensive guide to the five boroughs of the metropolis-- Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond /

The WPA guide to New York City : the Federal Writers' Project guide to 1930s New York : a comprehensive guide to the five boroughs of the metropolis-- Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:New York : The New Press, c1992.
Description:xxxii, 700 p., [64] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
New York (N.Y.) -- Guidebooks.
New York (State) -- New York.
Guidebooks.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2407450
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Other title:W.P.A. guide to New York City.
Other authors / contributors:Federal Writers' Project.
ISBN:1565843215
Notes:Reprint. Originally published: New York City guide. Rev. ed. New York : Random House, c1939. (American guide series)
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 649-657.
Review by Library Journal Review

This and several similar guides were sanctioned by the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s. Published in 1939, WPA Guide, which was praised by the New York Times as "one of the best books ever published about New York," dissects the wicked city in minute detail with the aid of maps and photos. With the American Library Association meeting in Manhattan next July, this book will help librarians brush up on the Big Apple. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

(c) Copyright Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Review by Library Journal Review

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